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MUSEUM HERE GETS HISTORIC WAPUM.; Two of William Penn's Treaty Belts, Long in England, Coming to New York. PRESENTED ABOUT 1683 They Sealed the Compact Which Established Peace Between Quakers and Indians.

Two belts of wampum, the very belts with which the Indians guaranteed one of their treaties with William Penn, possibly the famous Elm treaty itself, have been acquired by the Museum of the American Indian. Heye Foundation, of this city after weeks of negotiation during which it was feared the relics might have been lost to this country for all time.

November 21, 1916

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